We here at TinyHacker donate a tidy sum of money to various causes, projects and sharewares and would never dissuade anyone from doing the same. We draw the line at having to stare at Jimmy Wales’ mugshot on each and every Wikipedia page, year in, year out during fundraising season. Here’s how to remove him.

If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold

I have never read truer words about the Internet. Collusion is a free Firefox add-on which provides an interactive, real-time visualization of the entities that track your behavior across the web. The more you surf the web with it installed, the more it shows you. You should definitely check it out!

Popular multi-browser bookmark sync tool Xmarks is closing shop soon, here are their alternative recommendations. We’d buy them breakfast if we could, they’ve saved our bacon on more than one occasion. Foxmarks/Xmarks will be remembered as a success story, not a failure. The ultimate compliment is to have your extension incorporated into the browser, and Xmarks joins the ranks of session restore, spell check and many others. Below is the link to the announcement,

Once enabled, Cute Buttons for Firefox adds animations when you hover or click. Rotate your Reload (or any) button, blur out unavailable options in menus or simply add ‘cute’ buttons where Firefox icons didn’t exist before. We’ve used this for a couple of months and truly enjoy the results.

We all love Firefox because it can so easily be modified and molded by using extensions. Safari 5 supports extensions now and already has nice collections of useful add-ons. Check out the gallery below.

Spell Checker highlights spelling errors on whole pages, not just text boxes. A simple click on a the Spell Check icon will reveal any mistakes found on a page. Dozens of downloadable dictionary languages available here.